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• • 4. 200 DEAD IN SOUTH SUDAN AFTER BOAT SINKS • The boat carrying mostly women and children fleeing war sank while crossing the Nile River. • • 5. POLICE ACQUITTED IN HOMELESS MAN'S VIDEOTAPED DEATH • Now the FBI says it will determine whether to take federal action against the former Fullerton, Calif., officers. • • 6. HOW CHRISTIE IS TRYING TO REBOUND • The embattled New Jersey governor will propose longer school days, but that could anger the teachers union. • • 7. WATER BILL DISPUTE SHUTS SOME TEXAS CLASSROOMS • The city of La Villa imposed an increase but the school district refused to pay, so the doors closed. "We need to get back to school," one student says. • • 8. POLICE: MOVIE THEATER DISPUTE OVER TEXTING SPURS FATAL SHOOTING • A retired Tampa, Fla., police captain is charged with second-degree murder before a screening of "Lone Survivor." • • 9. WHAT KIM DOTCOM'S PLANNING NOW • The indicted Internet entrepreneur says he's starting a political party in New Zealand, though he can't be a candidate. • • 10. WHERE YOU CAN SEE VINTAGE FOOTBALL TRADING CARDS • New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is putting some 150 on exhibition Jan. 24-Feb. 10, including a series from 1894 •
AP News in Brief $1.1 trillion spending bill has dozens of trade-offs between Democrats and Republicans
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